Adversity is God’s specialty

I am happy to call this “adversity” rather than “persecution” so as to avoid equating the California treatment with the Iraq treatment. But either way you slice it, God has demonstrated a pattern of demonstrating his strength in desperate circumstances. If his kingdom were civil or political, then the ideal situation would certainly be full recognition by those in authority. But his kingdom, for now, is not of this world — and it’s an upside down kingdom at that. When the solutions are lacking, God loves to move in and show that the gates of hell will never prevail against his church. She seems to grow best when backed into a corner.